Parents of students applying for selective school placements say a plan that allows some to re-sit tests is unfair. Chaos erupted when hundreds of parents arrived to pick up their children from ...

New York City’s admission tests for specialized high schools, scheduled for this weekend, will be delayed because of concerns about spreading the Covid-19 virus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

The riot squad has been called to help with crowds after selective school exams turned to chaos at two locations in Sydney. Thousands of students had been planned to sit exams for selective ...

All high school students at Success take at least one Advanced Placement class, and 80% of them pass at least one exam. In contrast, only about 51% of city traditional public school students who ...

New York City students who took the test for admission to the city’s selective public high schools will get their decisions this week, and preliminary results show declines in both the number of ...

The federal judge reviewing Boston’s plan to reform its exam-school admissions policy for evidence of discrimination said he hopes to arrive at a decision in the coming weeks. During a hearing ...

The parents of a 9-year-old boy with profound disabilities have sued a selective charter school in New Orleans, claiming that the school’s use of an admissions test violates legal protections ...

Some students spend months or even years preparing for the exam. Stuyvesant, the most selective of the schools, has the highest cutoff score for admission, and now has the lowest percentage of ...

Parents say it is unfair that some students will be allowed to re-sit selective school entrance exams after police were called to chaotic scenes at their original tests. advertisement.